Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-04-08
High license or Prohibltion.

High license or ProhibittOn.
From an article with the above cap
ton by James Powell. d. d., published
in a recent issue OF the Chicago Advance,
we make the following extracts:
The demonstration In favor of what is
known as the Crosby bill, now before
the New York Legislature, last Friday
evening in Ghickering Hail. was an inn
mense affair. Irrespective OF party and
creed the people thronged, packing &he
hall. ..Ex.Judge Noah Davis presided
and made the opening speech. The
Judge Is q prohibitionist, but believes
That in New York, city prohibition can
only be attained by working up TO it
step by step. He holds that "tbe hour
is rapidly approaching when the moral
sense of she people of the United States
will rise up and e~xtinguish the infamy
of the saloon" Meanwhile he wants to
put all the restraint possible upon that
which cannot just now be destroyed......
In the same hall, (Chickeripg(on Sun
day afternoon, the american temperance
union made things just as lively from
the prohibition standpoint. The Crosby
bill Was gone through and torn into
shreds. a circular letter signed by DIR.
0OpAA|i nhsA u bGOEo Va. UbASE CkEERynlGa
read. The letter denounced the billtest
was called for a public meeting to pro.
aud against it. Rev. DR.. BidweH Lane, q
Methodist pastor. thought the high
license bill o good thing because it had
raised a RIOT In pandenionium. It had
got the distillers and brewers by the ears
so that tho public would be likely to hear
the truth. when the distlllers tell us
that beer makes more drunkards than
whisky" said he. I'VE should respect
such an expert opinion" But good as
it was, he opposed it because it would
create a wicked monopoly and crowd
poor men to the wall without any pnblic
benefit. Rev. q. j. Mingins
SAID he, would as o license a
gambling hell as d saloon, and while he
would admit that q saloon without a
license, running in defiance OF law, WAS
worse than one with a license. he was
opposed to q high license Law because it
would only increase the number OF un-
licened places. General Clinton B. Fisk
said that q few years ago he had advo-
Gated high license before the legislature.
but since then herhad learned the folly
OF any such measure. He had inyesti-
gated the practical workings of such q
law in Illinois. and the only thing in
which it had fulfilled the claims made
for it was in increasing the public
revenue, while it had not decreased the
evil. Hon. j. B. Finch, of Evanston,
ILL.,, was noticed in the Audience and
called out. He responded by saying that
he had dra I'm up the hsgh license
bill passed by the Nebraska leeR
islature, and he was now heartily
ashamed OF it. He denied that ahigh
license Law wonld decrease the number
OF saloons. or that. Ii would stamp ont
bad places, or that it would induce the
proprietors of respectable places to ex-
ert themselves to- close disreputable
dives. You can regulate q thing that
has some good in it, but ths liquor bust.
ness in ali its forms aud phases turns
ont one product-bummersn Thee a
come OF the meeting was the adoption
OF . series OF resolutions protesting
against high license. And SO the battle
raRen. In
4 hrve just s~stnyne7 from the prohibit
ton state Of Maine. IL was o great de-